Kim, Jeong Ho (John); Lee, Heebum; Lee, Sung Kwan - 2021
We empirically investigate the role of credit supply in fertility decisions. Using the U.S. banking deregulation in the … 1980s and the 2007–2009 Great Recession as two independent laboratories for the study of credit supply shocks, we find that … an increase in credit supply consistently implies higher fertility rates, as well as a higher probability of giving birth …